CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 48

In? Price has proposed

to strengthen the wall by a backing of Canton hydraulie line concrete and to cover the roadway with a skin a coating, of the same material, the Calter to be executed only to a partial exclent in the first instance.

The suggested

backing cannot be bonded

into or incorporated with the excisting masonry, and

and the function between the two would be practically a straight- Joint for the whole height of the Work; the addition of a backing

such as contémplated Worex not therefore add materially to the slåingth of the Wale, and I would recommend that it be omitted. - Photograph 40:4

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shows that the masonry

masory was

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Soundly, and solidly put together and it would be a mistake to

disture the old work, or its present baching which has become consolidated, especially as the

damage

be done by the

She byphoon of 1874 was confined almost enticių to a dislodgment of the cosing and Some of the Upper Courses through the scooping out of the road surface as aiready explained - If thereène the Rraya be protected by a coating of Canton lime concrete, Say for a width of 10 feet in the first-instance, to be extended over the entire area of the roadway herealer & thought desirable, the hain cause of the damage be the Typhoon of 1874 will have been removed. The joints of the ashlar face

should be

rahed